Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years Conservative administrations have faced greater opposition from the House of Lords than have Labour Governments , partly because there is probably a greater fear of a Labour Government curtailing still further the powers of the Lords should it be faced with opposition from that quarter . |
| 2 | On the Saturday evening , before seeing Law on the following morning , he dined with Davidson at the Argentine Club and informed him that he would ‘ rather take a single ticket to Siberia than become Prime Minister ’ . |
| 3 | I was probably better equipped to compete in the Tour de France than play top class football . ’ |
| 4 | I was probably better equipped to compete in the Tour de France than play top class football . ’ |
| 5 | Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force . |